Bard with Talon
How to Synergize Bard and Talon
based on 2,501 Bard with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Talon
Tips for Playing as Bard with Talon
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Understand How Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Bard Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Bard in LoL
The Bard Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Bard sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Talon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Talon helps Bard perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Talon, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Talon provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Talon on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Talon does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Talon?
There is no ideal synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Talon is a very typical ally for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Bard and Talon that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Talon allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Bard players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Talon together, you may not be granting your other allies much AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Bard and Talon synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Talon than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing alongside Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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